RE: Escape caracters

Hi Ramkumar,
It does look like an entity reference... Even though I didn't find the ones I have on the w3.org website... For example '„', '“' or '"'.
These values are in the database, but when queried directly from the database and displayed on a web page, they are displayed as 'normal' caracters, but not in the XML document, nore after the parsing to an HTML page.
I use XMLSPY to transform XML to HTML.
Is there something that has to be specified in the XML/HTML or XSL document to resolve the entity references?
I've specified this in my XSL : <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
This is in my XML : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
And this is generated in my HTML page : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>

Does anybody know what could be wrong???

Thanks a lot!!!

 
Neil Smith
Analyste Programmeur
Universiti de Fribourg
Av. de l'Europe 20
CH - 1700 Fribourg
Til. +41 26 300 7091

-----Original Message-----
From: Ramkumar Menon [mailto:ram.menon@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: mercredi, 26. mai 2004 16:24
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Escape caracters

Neil,
I suppose you are referring to entity references here.  I think the XML 
parser should have resolved all entity references in your XML that was 
imported [ I hope that was what you meant by "query to create an XML 
Document"] from the Database. So the Parsed XML Doc that is passed as 
the source tree for the XSLT wouldn't have any of these.

-Menon

SMITH Neil wrote:

>Hi all!
>I have a little problem with the transformation of text that was entered via a web page and stored in a DB that I query to create an XML document. This document is then parsed with XSL to HTML.
>The thing is that in the DB, escape caracters (not even sure if that's what they should be called) such as " are stored like this : &quot;. Is it possible to convert all these into 'normal' text during the transformation? How can I do this?
>
>Thanks a lot for your help
>Best regards,
>Neil.
>
> 
>Neil Smith
>Analyste Programmeur
>Universiti de Fribourg
>Av. de l'Europe 20
>CH - 1700 Fribourg
>Til. +41 26 300 7091